TELEGRAM TO J. V. STALIN

Published:First published in 1942 inLenin Miscellany XXXIV.

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Moscow18. VII. 1919

StalinR.M.C., Western Front

Yourrequest will be discussed by the Revolutionary
Military Council of the Republic. Sklyansky says that if
more is to be taken from the Eastern Front, then it should
be for the Southern Front. Tomorrow Smilga and the
Commander-in-Chief[2]arrive from the Southern
Front.[1]

[1]Leninmarked off the text of the telegram and wrote in the
margin: “In code.”—Ed.

[2]TheCommander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic
at that time was S. S. Kamenev.